His name wasn't included in initial reporting, but the detained person is Ted Kramer, the CEO and co-founder of Six4Three. I haven't found any other source saying he's also a company lawyer, though I suppose it's possible.
The saddest thing about this story is that the documents are probably over-hyped. As Casey Newton [noted on Twitter](https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1066470150516310016): "So the cache of secret documents reveals that ... Facebook had a developer API ... and promoted it ... to developers???"
That Facebook had a broad and overreaching API was [known in 2011](https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/24/facebook-was-warned-about-app-permissions-in-2011/). Only developers really cared when they started shuttering it in 2014 (hence the Six4Three lawsuit), until Cambridge Analytica gave politicians political cover to investigate it.
I suppose the British parliament probably has broad authority to get these documents (perhaps they are explosive). However, it's troubling that they felt they needed to extort a Six4Three lawyer to get them.
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The guy is a Lawyer?
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The saddest thing
That Facebook had a broad and overreaching API was [known in 2011](https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/24/facebook-was-warned-about-app-permissions-in-2011/). Only developers really cared when they started shuttering it in 2014 (hence the Six4Three lawsuit), until Cambridge Analytica gave politicians political cover to investigate it.
I suppose the British parliament probably has broad authority to get these documents (perhaps they are explosive). However, it's troubling that they felt they needed to extort a Six4Three lawyer to get them.
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